Help:How to Code

You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''

Adding References

To find out how to add references using footnotes, see this Help page.

Paragraphs

Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <br /> or with <p></p>.

HTML

Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.

Recapitulative table

Description

You type

You get

applies anywhere

Underlined text

<u>underlined</u>

underlined

Italic text

''italic''

italic

Bold text

'''bold'''

bold

Bold and italic

'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic

assign a color to your text

<font color=blue>blue text</font>

blue text

assign a size to your text

<font size=5>size 5 text</font>

size 5 text

bigger text

<big>big text</big>

big text

even bigger text

<big><big>bigger text</big></big>

bigger text

striked through text

<s>striked through text</s>

striked through text

Centered text

<center>Centered text</center>

Centered text

display name of page

{{SUBST:FULLPAGENAME}}

Help:How to Code

Lowercase a group of words

{{lc:Hello my name is Deborah}}

hello my name is deborah

Uppercase a group of words

{{uc:Hello my name is Deborah}}

HELLO MY NAME IS DEBORAH

Escape wiki markup

<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>

no ''markup''

only at the beginning of the line

Headings of

different sizes

==level 1=====level 2=======level 3=========level 4=====

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Horizontal rule

----

Bullet list

* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds

one

two

three

three and one-third

three and two-thirds

Numbered list

# one
# two
# three
## three point one
## three point two

one

two

three

three point one

three point two

Definition list

;Definition
:item 1
:item 2

Definition

item 1

item 2

Preformatted text

preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line

preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line

Links

To create a link to an article, surround the word you would like to make a link with two sets of brackets like this: [[Link]]

To create a link with a title that is different than the page it is linked to format the link like this:[[Page linked to|title]]

To create an external link surround the web address with [ and a ] for example to make an external link to fox.com, you would do the following [http://www.fox.com]

To create a link to a category after the [[ put an : for example to create a link to the category, Conservapedians, do the following: [[:Category:Conservapedians]] you can also change the default text like this: [[:Category:Conservapedians|WXYZ]]

To create a link to an image after the [[ put an : for example to create a link to the image, Cat.jpg, do the following: [[:Image:Cat.jpg]] you can also change the default text like this: [[:Image:Cat.jpg|WXYZ]]

To create a list of links put an * in front of each link, for example:

*[[A]]

*[[B]]

*[[C]]

*[[D]]

Important templates

{{delete}} propose deletion of an article

{{speedy}} propose speedy deletion of an article

{{merge with|A}} propose merging an article with the article, A

{{move|A}} proposes moving this article to, A

{{User Retired}} means you are retiring from Conservapedia

{{Category redirect|United States Cities and Towns}} tell users of a category that they should be looking at a different preferred category.

For example if there was a category called, American Cities and Towns, you'd put {{Category redirect|United States Cities and Towns}} to tell users to use the category, United States Cities and Towns, instead of, American Cities and Towns, as it is the preffered category for cities in the USA.

Creating redirects

To create a redirect put a #Redirect[[ then the name of the page for it to be redirected then ]]
for example to redirect this page to the article on Bear, you'd put: #Redirect[[Bear]]

Other

[[Category:A]] adds an article to Category, A

[[Image:A.GIF]] loads the picture A.GIF on an article

{{Car}} adds the template Car to an article

{{SUBST:ABC}} substitutes all the information from Template:ABC into the article, note all future changes to the template:ABC will not be shown on the article

{{welcome}} --~~~~ welcomes a user to Conservapedia, note this should only be put on a user's talk page

{{welcome|sig=~~~~}} welcomes a user to Conservapedia, note this should only be put on a user's talk page

Signature

To sign your username, type three tildes(~~~). To sign your username with a timestamp, use four tildes (~~~~)

Making a custom signature

first make a subpage of user page which has your custom signature for example, User:Deborah/sig go to, my preferences click on raw signatures and put {{Subst:User:Deborah/sig}}